Android 4.0 growing faster, Jelly Bean just getting started

As you can see from the data above, Android 4.0 aka Ice Cream Sandwich is gaining pace in its install base according to Google’s report of how the different Android versions are divided. It is now on a total of 15.9% of devices, making it the 2nd most installed …

Galaxy Tab 2 7″ – Available for £166.99

Usual advice here. Be quick, this is for a limited time. Right now, if you’re signed up to Quidco, you can get the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7″ 8GB for just £166.99. It works like this. The 8GB version is £199.99, but Currys have knocked it down to …

Details of the Archos 101XS start to leak out

Don’t you just love the FCC? Well once again they have ruined another marketing scheme. Take Archos for instance, yesterday Archos put up a teaser image on Facebook and they tweeted: ARCHOS Gen 10 is coming… See you in 3 weeks for the launch announcement.http://fb.me/2bxg6aHWQ  They posted this …

Apple Prototypes Revealed

Apple vs Samsung (or Samsung vs Apple) kicked off this week and its proving to be a hugely interesting affair because of the evidence thats being shown. The Verge have a man inside the courts reporting back and they have managed to get their hands on a raft …

Some more Google Nexus 7 accessories appear online

Mobilefun have published details of some official Cases for the Google Nexus 7. There are four new cases and a screen protector. Quite why these haven’t been leaked before or whether these are licensed by Asus /Google I’m not sure. Either way they all look pretty useful. So …

Android Ice Cream Sandwich on the Raspberry pi

Some of you have probably bought a Raspberry pi. Some of you are probably wondering what one is. Well the picture shows you what it is. 🙂 The Raspberry pi is a mini motherboard that you can buy cheaply and install a variety of different Linux distributions on. …

Ouya receives boost from Square Enix

The Ouya Android console has now received support from makers of Final Fantasy III, Square Enix. The Android powered device, which is expected to retail for around £63 ($99) has now received more than £3 million ($5 million) in funding through the Kickstarter website. Effectively the console is …

ZTE retain their position in the top 5

ZTE have maintained their position in the world rankings for mobile device shipments. As we all know devices shipped are drastically different to devices sold. But hey we’ll just carry on with this. The others in the top five will be Apple, Samsung, HTC and Nokia. This marks …

ZTE are having a competition to win a nice new Grand X

ZTE UK have launched a Facebook video production competition with rapper Professor Green. OK, he keeps popping up every time ZTE is mentioned recently. I guess he just really likes ZTE, or something… Well anyway ZTE are offering you the chance to win a brand new Grand X …

Time2Touch 7″ Android 4.0 Tablet for £79.99

No, I’ve never heard of Time2Touch either, but their MC7403A tablet usually sells for £189.99 according to their website. It has a 7″ 800 x 480 pixel capacitive screen, 1.5GHz CPU, WiFi, 1.3 megapixel camera and runs Android Ice Cream Sandwich. There’s access to Google Play too. A …

Casio announces two business/rugged based tablets

Yes the well known business/rugged genre for devices. The demographic for these new tablets is obviously going to be for the business man who could just flip out at any minute (due to his highly stressful job) and smash up his office and all the computing devices around. …

Samsung upgrade some of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 range

Yesterday Samsung started to update some of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 models to Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich with the Wifi model (model GT-P7510) taking its turn now. As usual with Samsung you can either update using Kies or wait for your device to pick up the ota …

Google add another Nexus 7 video, this time it’s Google Now

So over the last week Google has been adding a variety of videos to their Google Nexus YouTube channel. Today is the turn of Google Now and the cards. After watching this I was still none the wiser. I guess I should just use Google Now more. But information …

Sony Tablet S Successor Coming in August?

The Sony Tablet S is going to be replaced soon with what looks to be a much more powerful tablet – the SGPT1211 – but will it be able to compete with the Nexus 7 and the iPad? The Tablet S is a well designed, stylish 9″ tablet …

Open WebOS will not support any existing devices

The Open webOS project have announced on their blog that their upcoming open source version of webOS will not be compatible with existing devices. This has come as a shock to the small but dedicated community who have supported webOS through difficult times and were looking forward to continued …

TVCatchup for Android – New Beta to try

There’s a big sporting event going on at the minute and, as you may know already, you can watch all of the 24 Olympic channels via the BBC Olympic app. If, however, you fancy watching “Midsomer Murders”, “Come Dine with Me” or some other bilge, you should definitely …

ZTE Grand X Available now

Want a ZTE Grand X? You can bag yourself one right now thorugh those people at Phones 4u. Dan got up close and personal with the new device just days ago. It’s runs Android Ice Cream Sandwich, has a 960×540 4.3″ qHD screen, dual-core 1GHz CPU, 5 megapixel …

Nexus 7 Accessory Lineup Leaked – Coming Soon

So, you have your shiny new Nexus 7, you’ve installed all your apps and got it running exactly as you want it.  But what about those official accessories to go with it.  After all those pesky iPad’s have them in their thousands! Well, according to Nordic Hardware the official …

Another Lumia specific app released

Over the last few days Nokia have been publishing apps. Last week we had Camera Extras, yesterday we had Contacts Share and today we have Counters. So what is Counters? Basically it allows you to input the number of minutes for calls you get a month, the number …

iPhone Event September 12th?

The New iPhone will be announced on Wednesday September 12th and will be available to buy on the 21st, at least according to Rene Ritchie over at iMore. Before last year, Apple typically held an event in the 2nd week of September to launch new iPods but last …